Barbra Streisand and Jessica Lange to star in Ryan Murphy's "The Politician" for Netflix

As part of her ongoing preparation for the lead in Gypsy, Ms. Streisand will be playing Jessica Lange's daughter in the Netflix project.

lmao @ R1

I can't wait to see these two dames together. They are going to kill it!

The premiere will probably spark one of those 700 response threads on data lounge.

R3 It's going to be glorious. I'm predicting at least 15 threads.

When Feud was on, the DL managed 10+ threads which had it ALL: Lange fans massacring Faye Dunaway fans, Erna scatting everywhere, Matt The Poppins Loon being slayed by both Jess and Faye fans and cock and ass pics galore. So much fun!

Muriel needs to tweet this thread.

He needs to cast Faye in this. I don't understand why he doesn't throw her a bone.

She deserves it, dammit!

I love them both, can't wait!

Babz, The Lange, Goop... This is going to be epic.

Katie Morosky lives!!! I can't wait

BARBRA.

Yes, we know R9. It says So in the title.

So, per Wikipedia, this is the premise:

[quote]The Politician is set to revolve around "the politician aspirations of Platt’s Payton, a wealthy Santa Barbarian, and every season will revolve around a different political race his character is involved in."

I predict Babz is playing his mother, Goop the wife or campaign manager and Jess a crazy politician competitor.

Lange and Streisand on opposite sides of the cover of Life magazine back in the day, foretelling this...

Laura Dreyfuss is in this... Richard's daughter, I presume?

Also, isn't Ben Platt gay?

People are already going nuts about the news and it hasn't even officially been announced yet...

Ben Platt is very gay, and apparently the lead?

R14 He's "The Politician".

Ben gives me Bobby Cannavale teas.

The link at op is broken. Here it is:

:phew: @ R17

I thought op was fucking with our minds and hearts. Jess looks great! Any pics of Babz?

thank dog it will be on Netflix and not Amazon or Hulu.....i get a lot of bang for my 8 bucks a month.....

This was rumored in the summer.

I need pics of Babz NOW!

r11 I like all the women on that cover. So much nicer back then the celebrities featured today like the Kardashians.

R22 So true. There were REAL stahs back then.

Excited for Streisand. It'll be fun watching her in a hit again.

I need this now!!!!!!

Yas, Queens!

When, where, how?????

!!!!!

[quote]Laura Dreyfuss is in this... Richard's daughter, I presume?

Don't know if they are related but she's not his daughter. She was in Glee hence the Murphy connection, and in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadwzy with Platt.

With lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones as the granddaughter, a lesbian coed at Vassar?

[quote]Santa Barbarian

This would be a great name for a Christmas horror movie.

Oh, and the correct demonym is "Santa BARBARAN."

Is this being released this year?

I wonder if they'll be releasing the whole season at once as per usual on Netflix.

Hire Mamacita Ryan....we want Jackie back!

He needs to hire some interesting old gentlemen legends. After seeing him in Book Club (dreadful, btw), and because he was mentioned up thread, Richard Dreyfuss would be perfect for a political comedy.

Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman would be fun, too.

Judy Davis is in this, too.

R34 How do you know this?

She would make a great addition!

OMG Judy also. I really really hope this doesn't suck. I'm not a fan of Murphy without Jessica so maybe this will be good. I don't ever recall a musical drama being successful on TV...

The Judy Davis addition is only a rumor.

Eddie Murphy? He can sing is he in this? Zooey Deschanel?

Now if Eddie Murphy is in this I will be mad. Can't stand that asshole...

So, this is a political musical comedy? This could be disastrous or glorious.

It really depends on who Murphy is teaming up with. Any writers or directors officially announced yet? Didn't see any on the wiki page posted above.

wait, this is a comedy? I thought this would give Barbra a chance to exercise her acting chops again a la The Way We Were.

R41 Knowing Ryan, there will be plenty of drama in this. I'm glad it's not strictly a drama.

And of course we get to see/hear Babz breakout into song during political discourses.

Babs is what? 85 years old? At least! There will be no breaking out into song. You will barely be able to recognize her behind the smoke and mirrors.

R43 You really think Ryan is going to put Streisand in a musical and not have her sing?

she will sing but will not "break out into song". As if.

R45 This is a Ryan P. Murphy production. A musical COMEDY, to boot.

107 year old superstahs do not "break into song". Except Liza.

I thought Jessica Lange was retired? She's been announcing her imminent retirement for over a quarter of a century now.

I guess she changes her mind when her sole benefactor deigns to cast her. When's the last time she appeared on our screens in something that wasn't his?

I suppose she's comfortable with it. After all, its well-established her career began on the casting couch and most of her roles have been gained through... personal relations (of all varieties).

[quote]The premiere will probably spark one of those 700 response threads on data lounge.

The trailer, you mean

Half the posts will be by The Lange Loon (tm) / Jessbot.

R49 So true, lol.

Ay, si...

Ryan wouldn't have gotten this cast unless it was really, really good. I'm talking People vs. OJ quality. It's also his first show after signing the huge contract with Netflix, so there's a lot of pressure on him to deliver something exceptional. I heard he's pulling out all the stops with this one.

I don't know if Barbra is appearing as an actress on the show, but she's agreed to direct one or two episodes. I'm curious to see how she directs Jessica Lange. I can also see Helen Hunt directing some episodes since she did such a great job on Feud.

So it's Glee in politics?

R53 Wasn't Streisand playing Platt's mother already confirmed? I do think you're right about her directing a few episodes, too.

Helen Hunt's episode (#7, I believe) of "Feud" was fantastic so I wouldn't mind seeing her return to helm one or two episodes of this show.

Also, I didn't realize this would be the first released show under Murphy's $300 million deal with Netflix. Here's hoping it delivers!

I'm one of e few dreaming of Barbra doing Gypsy . U would assume RM could make it happen.

Babz doing Gypsy in her 70's would be divine.

Did not RR do it in her 60s ? Easily today’s woman in her 70s look 60 or younger. There has been many male stars doing cgi in early scenes to look younger.

Jesus, Ryan Murphy has been de-aging women of a certain age in his shows since his Nip/Tuck days. He did it with Vanessa Redgrave to make it look like she got a face lift, he did with with Jaqueline Bisset, and there have been a few episodes of AHS where he did it with Lange. It can sometimes be jarring, but if he were to end up doing Gypsy with Babs, I assume he'd do that for at least the first 30 minutes of the movie.

I didn't even know this show was going to be a musical. This sounds so bizarre.

I assume we haven't seen any shots of Babs yet because she's insisting on shooting all of her scenes against the green screen in her mall and being pasted in later.

I hope her role isn't a large cameo every episode.

Barbara an d Jessica are going to bring that big dick energy and I went them both in my mussy.

I need more news on this now. I need BABS on my screen NOW!!!!

Barbra and Gwyneth were filming around the Wilshire Country Club a couple weeks ago.

R64 Are you serious?

[quote]R5 He needs to cast Faye in this. I don't understand why he doesn't throw her a bone.

Life is too short to put up with her bullshit.

Last time RM put Jessica singing was not well, good ….

FD blames MD for lost career instead of bein difficult ...

[quote]Also, I didn't realize this would be the first released show under Murphy's $300 million deal with Netflix. Here's hoping it delivers!

I wonder when they are going to announce his other Netflix shows? Shonda Rhimes' announced slate of shows were underwhelming.

R67 Last time he put her to sing, she charted in the Top 50 and gave us this iconic moment (2.5 million views on this one):

3.4 million views on this one.

I just want Babs and Lange slaying bitches left and right together.

2.2 m views on this one.

It didn't look like Jessica was filming a musical in downtown LA last week

I guess I’m old and don’t understand that 1 million views make a song a hit.

R75 Charting in the Top 50 with no musical career to speak of while in you late 60's AND having 15+ million views on youtube for said music makes songs a hit.

Charted in the top 50 on iTunes.

Were you there, R74?

Many songs from Glee charted iTunes. I’m embarrassed to admit I downloaded several. I listened to Don’t Stop Believing recently That song makes me sad.

I would prefer to see Barbra cloning dogs left and right till it all goes very wrong with a strain that creates the "Mutant Wild Dogs of Maibu".

lmao @ R80. Stop it! This is going to be fun.

Interesting to look at the magazine cover in R13 and not see Meryl.

I was excited until Eddie Murphy’s name was mentioned. I wish they got Cuba Gooding jr.

I think Platt is the only male who's been announced.

Ryan Murphy would not hire Eddie Murphy

OP your link doesn’t work, just like this “political musical” concept.

The link was posted midthread….

Also, Muriel has tweeted this thread out.

Ben Platt is 24. Babs is 76. Is she really planning to play his MOTHER?

Is this like Grace and Frankie with songs? What a trainwreck!

I'm SO looking forward to the threads here. I love Lange and Barbra, and I also love the Lange fan. The Mary Poppins trolls seems to have disappeared lately (I hope he's taking his meds), so this could be fun to talk about.

I remember that Life magazine coverstory. Jessica just had a baby so she was a little self conscious about her weight. Goldie was five months pregnant. And Barbra was shy and a little nervous, which, apparently, is how she is in social situations.

It’s nice for Jessica that Ryan Murphy keeps giving her jobs. I still think it’s odd no one else wants to work with her. This sounds awful but maybe it will be campy.

That Life cover was about actresses who had film production companies. Jessica’s was a failure.

That pic is so cute, R91.

R92 Lange produced one film and it scored her an Oscar nomination. Not too shabby.

Lange also told that French magazine that she's shooting a film this fall. Could it finally be The Lonely Doll?

Rumors are it's Gary Oldman's "Flying Horse".

"The Lonely Doll" will be so depressing. Dare Wright lost her mind.

Whatever movie Jessica is in, it will be bad.

Any room for an Emmy-less Dame?

What's sad is the nutty Lange hater. That bitch is cray cray, lol.

We see you, Matty...

Pairing Lange and Streisand is a great idea.

Lange is very much the Yin type, whilst Babz is very much Yan.

[quote]It’s nice for Jessica that Ryan Murphy keeps giving her jobs. I still think it’s odd no one else wants to work with her.

Jessica is pretty much retired, or semi-retired. She has made no bones about the fact that she doesn't like to work, so it takes the prodding of friends like Ryan Murphy to entice her back, usually with meaty dramatic parts and not just throwaway roles. I think I read that Jessica said she'll do this limited series for Netflix and one more movie and that's it. She's done.

Lange has always been a mercurial creature. She first announced retirement in 1992, lol. I love that about her, though. She throws herself so fully into her roles that by the time she's done, she's usually emotionally and physically drained.

Her relationship with Ryan Murphy is truly a win-win situation for the both of them. The fans just LOVE her on his shows and she always boosts ratings for him and gives him critical respect. In turn, he gives her some fantastic off the wall shit to do, which we all love to watch. When AHS is on, her name trends even when she hasn't even been on the show in 4 years.

Gia Coppola was interviewed in the summer and confirmed that The Lonely Doll with Lange and Naomi Watts is still a go, so I suspect that's the film Lange mentions here in the French interview:

I need more GODDAMN PICTURES!

R101, Okay, so in that Le Figaro article, she implies that she's not quite done, that it all depends on the roles she's being offered. So people need to keep giving her good parts if they want her to continue acting.

R103 She's got one more run as Constance Langdon on AHS coming up. She's doing this project with Babs. She's got The Lonely Doll coming up and her wiki says she's "in negotiations" to join Oldman's Flying Horse.

[quote]I thought Jessica Lange was retired? She's been announcing her imminent retirement for over a quarter of a century now.

She was going to leave acting to become a falconer. (but I think they re balanced her meds and she stopped saying that.)

Oh, M. Why must you flirt with me so?

We all know how much you love me...

Yes J. You are fabulous. Thank you for putting one of my no talent daughters on your TV show. Anything that gets them out of the house.

No problem, love.

Is Jessbot back?

Janet Jackson / Jessica Lange has sold... 123... XYZ sold 123; ABC sold 456; Madonna / Meryl is evil and conspires to make Janet / Jess' voice / acting bad.

Over and over...

Barbra has the good footwear in R91. They are Alaia or some expensive shit.

Barbra?! Jessica Lange?! Judy Davis?! Ryan Murphy! This is like a gay Christmas miracle!

Just need to throw in RuPaul!

I feel like I should NOT be saying! A close family member worked on the scouting. I have no dirt yet. But I will...

This is going to be heaven. SHEER heaven.

Why is Jane Fonda in the middle at R91?

Why is there a space? Did they symbolically reserve a spot for someone else missing from the photo?

R116 Well...

LOL at people acting like they “know” terrible actress Jessica. Hide the liquor bottles.

Sorry, just couldn't get out of bed that day! I assumed they'd restyle it...

She does enjoy a drink or two, yes.

Barbra just posted a video of herself going into the recording studio on Facebook teasing big news coming soon, so 99% chance it’s this show.

So sick of Ryan fucking Murphy. Can’t the bitch retire and finally have the sex change he desires.

So this is another supporting role for Jessica on a TV show?

R121 Link?

Ew. The Lange hater psycho is back. The stench of it's bloated carcass has a way of transmitting through the wifi waves.

Failed mime Jessica is the Jerry Lewis of France.

I wonder why Streisand has wasted her sizable talent, and continues to waste it in things like this? She could afford to fund just about anything she wants, so why turn up in Ryan Murphy's latest camp garbagefest?

Maybe she just likes having her ego stroked, which, Murphy certainly enjoys doing. He won't challenge her acting, singing, direction, production. God knows, he let Lange's scenery-chewing run wild.

Ryan Murphy is the only person who would hire these two has beens together and try to make it work as a musical political comedy.

This is going to be utterly glorious.

[quote]I wonder why Streisand has wasted her sizable talent, and continues to waste it in things like this? She could afford to fund just about anything she wants, so why turn up in Ryan Murphy's latest camp garbagefest?

The same reason everyone lines up to work for Ryan Murphy. He has a track record of shows that hit the pop culture zeitgeist and are award season darlings. Get real.

Barbra looks younger and more spry here than Lange has recently. She's definitely in very good spirits.

She's in the recording studio finishing her upcoming album, not for the Ryan Murphy show.

It's a shame really, because Streisand is so talented. But for decades now she's treated her career more as a hobby.

Not Lange, who seems desperate for work.

But it's infuriating when one thinks of Barbra's missed cinematic opportunities. I'm not suggesting she should've said yes to Klute, but... maybe someone could've advised her against The Mirror Has Two Faces.

This really seems a sad thing for her to end up agreeing to. I'm sure Murphy lured her in with promises of more camera lens chicken fat Doris Day could even dream of.

[quote]Barbra looks younger and more spry here than Lange has recently.

Yes. Unlike Lange, I think she stills looks quite good; still like herself (not Caitlyn Jenner's older sister) but 'rested'. She's too old for Momma Rose now, but ten, maybe at a push five years ago I think she might've still gotten away with it. I wish she'd done it for TV in '93 instead of the dreadful Midler.

Yeah right, she’s “spry”

[quote]The same reason everyone lines up to work for Ryan Murphy.

Does everyone line up to work for him? What would Jessica Lange, Joan Collins, CZJ, etc., be doing? Most of the these older actresses are sitting at home otherwise, judging by their IMDbs.

The most in demand actresses do not work with Murphy. He is the TV garage sale of out of work broads. He puts them in his creepy & campy TV shows.

R131 Is Barbra channeling Sue Mengers for style tips?

And by doing so he got Jessica Lange two more emmys and made her a name to a younger generation r136.

Her IMDb tells that Murphy is Lange's only source of employment.

Glenn Close has avoided him and focused mostly on doing good work, as opposed to being fawned over by a pet gay whilst giving a Dietrich or Mae West style screen 'appearance'. She's properly more in demand than most of the others, of course; but she's going to win an Oscar this year, so its for the best.

Jess isn't the only one to enjoy a drink. Or several.

Feud was a 💩 Turd.

Yes.

I wonder if Ryan wants to work with Miss Dunaway. I probably knows it's not worth the stress. I thought she was retired (or unemployable) but she seems to have started working again.

Her Joan was so much better than Lange's.

Is there a small role for me?

The previous poster pointed out the main issue I had with Babs' Gypsy. If it was so unfindable, why couldn't she put up the money herself? If she believes in it so much, put up the money yourself. I do think she's way too old now and it'll be laughed off the screen unless they use a spry body double for the first 30 minutes and paste Babs' retouched face on it. It's more than just being too old for the role - she moves like an old woman most of the time. Rose can't be wobbly. In real life, Rose would have probably been 45 tops by the final scene. I wish she'd just stage an all-star concert event of the show (with her beloved teleprompters if she forgets a line) and tape it for HBO or Netflix or even theaters.

If A Star is Born is a hit, I wouldn't be surprised to hear it's back on yet again with Gaga as Gypsy.

R138. Don't entertain Erna. Between her fetishes for Smegma lined ancient "sizemeat" and bashing Lange, she wouldn't know anything about the younger generation.

Lange trends on Facebook and Twitter for a show she's not even on while Erna over her furiously flicks that oversized clit she calls a dick whilst shamelessly bashing older woman.

Ol' Erna is so transparently and desperately envious.

Oh, poor Faye. Doing TV ads for defunct fashion houses and scraping her face to unrecognizability.

She would know a turd, wouldn't she? Just another commonality she shares with Erna, lmao.

Jessica Lange...our greatest living actress.

They should've made Babs "The Politician" and Lange her best friend or Chief of Staff.

They're the ones everyone is going to tune in for.

Also, love the Judy Davis rumor. Hope it's true. Goop being in this is a little disappointing unless he plans to make her a punching bag for the old dames to chew and beat on.

Does Lange even need to work.? In a Rolling Stone article post Tootsie, they got on a discussion on how she was starting to come into big money with her recent success. Jessica basically waved it off and said she asked her accountant to set it up so that she could have 50,000 a year to work with., or some similar number. Even then she was already looking to leave and focus on other things. I don't think she's ever really wanted financially.

Oh brother. Lange is over except for Ryan Murphy TV gigs. Ditto 80 year old “spry” Barbara.

I'm a fan of Barbra and Jessica, so I'll definitely be checking this out.

Is there a release date?

[quote]Is there a release date?

They are filming it now. Netflix shows finish production before they start airing, it won't be for a while, there isn't an official date yet.

R69 He also announced "Ratched" starring Sarah Paulson. It's a series based on the character Nurse Ratched.

I hear must of it is Asylum/Sister Jude leftovers from when season 2 was supposed to be set in a hospital.

He needs to get Liza to guest star in this, too.

Ryan Murphy is great at starting projects but he is not great at seeing them through. He promises this is going to be an ongoing series, but he usually just does one season or two and then moves on to do something else.

I'm beginning to think that though he's a very creative mind he's a bit of a fraud.

Murphy has to have severe ADD. I feel like this all started during Nip/Tuck. A great first season, an even better second season, a decent third, a Love Boat-inspired fourth season with celebrity cameos galore to hide the fact that the show was running out of steam, and then...well, I can't even remember the later seasons. They made zero sense and you could tell Murphy had checked out.

He did this with Glee, American Horror Story, etc. He has great ideas and is clearly very creative, but he doesn't seem to be a "big picture" guy. He never seems to care about the taste he'll leave in the audience's mouth at the end as long as he gives them a bunch of razzle dazzle in the meantime.

Glee was great only in its first season.

In a weird way American Horror Story was never that good. he had such great ideas, but even from the first episode of the first season he put too many of them in--there was no atmosphere or tension, just one idea thrown at you after another.

[quote]Glee was great only in its first season.

Truth. And interesting during the promo for Versace, Darren Criss claimed this was the first time he was really working with Ryan Murphy, basically throwing it out there that by the time he joined in Season 2 Murphy was already pretty checked out from the running of "Glee".

R131 a new album? Again? She has few good strong notes left. She should have retired when she had a voice.

Bonnie Franklin...our greatest living actress.

I hear each episode opens and closes with a musical number.

There's apparently a tapdance musical political debate (think Richard Gere in Chicago) that is quite good.

Yeah, the press releases described it as a "musical comedy". And it stars Ben Platt, obviously he is going to be singing.

Face it. All of his TV shows suck.

I didn't think The Normal Heart, The People vs OJ Simpson, or Feud sucked, but okay. You're entitled to your opinion, R165.

R167 To be fair, Murphy didn't have full creative control over those projects.

Also, OJ and Feud were written and fleshed out before his involvement.

So was The Normal Heart.

Three divas in one title — a datalounge record!

Ay, si.

Instead of being so pretentious they should just remake the Golden Girls with Barbara, Goldie, Sally and Jessica, since they all are old now. No stupid songs or politics.

R172 That's actually a good idea. I think The Golden Girls could withstand a reboot/update with it potentially turning out to be quite good.

Wasn’t that Book Club?

Maybe Jane Fonda could play Bea Arthur and Sally Field her mother. Barbara as Rose and Lange as Blanche. Goldie could be an ongoing guest star as Rose’s sister Daisy.

Life Magazine reunion.

Rose - Glenn Close

Dorothy - Anjelica Huston

Blanche - Holly Hunter

Sophia - Rita Moreno

Rose - Dianne Wiest

Dorothy - Christine Lahti

Blanche - Kim Basinger

R174 Hell no. It was soon bad. "Wild Oats", with Lange and Shirley MacLaine, also underwhelming btw, was miles above that crap.

The girls in Book Club, though individually great, didn't have much chemistry, which was a big part of the problem.

R175 I love that!!

I love Barbra and hope this is true and proves to be a big success.

[quote]When Feud was on, the DL managed 10+ threads which had it ALL: Lange fans massacring Faye Dunaway fans, Erna scatting everywhere, Matt The Poppins Loon being slayed by both Jess and Faye fans and cock and ass pics galore. So much fun!

The Feud threads were ruined by those insane trolls. Fun?! I was forced to stop discussing the show here because the threads were such an embarassing mess.

Also, Ben Platt would like to remind people that this show is based around him. He is getting ignored.

I didn't think FEUD was good. My sort of thing, and I loved seeing Sarandon and some other players... but not actually *good*. I never finished it.

I suppose a show on which he simply plops his name onto without giving involved could be good.

But when he's involved it will inevitably devolve into wink-at-the-camera diva schlock that burns out quickly.

I don't care about his inconsistencies.

I care that we get to see Barbara fucking Streisand and Jessica fucking Lange together on screen.

[quote] I care that we get to see Barbara fucking Streisand and Jessica fucking Lange together on screen.

I can't imagine them 'gelling' in a particularly special way.

Lange is a very showy actress, who tries to 'steal' attention, as she sees it.

Streisand's performances (certainly her more recent ones) seem to exist in a kind of world of their own.

And I can't imagine she'll allow herself to be seen as playing second fiddle. She's neurotically conscious about that sort of thing, in a way that goes beyond first billing. Her wire-gauze closeups in this will make Angela Lansbury's in Murder She Wrote seem like gritty HD.

Not that I'm not a fan.

Lange isn't always "very showy" and does "try to steal" attention.

MacLaine loved working with her and Lange respectfully supported her rather than outshining her.

Lange is Ying, Babs Yang. A perfect pair.

[quote]Lange isn't always "very showy" and does "try to steal" attention.

She is. Which is what her fans like about her.

[quote]Lange respectfully supported her rather than outshining her.

I didn't say she was capable of it, just that she tries to.

Being a showy actor doesn't necessarily make one a bad actor, per se.

Bette Davis was showy and no one comes close to her.

But that's not quite what it means.

Lange knows that praise is more easily won for a more obviously impactful performance and, in the absence of skill, the easiest way to be impactful is to be showy. Loud, hammy, broad. Or 'raw,' 'visceral,' 'intense' as her fans would say.

Well, we all need a bit of that in our lives.

But I can't imagine Streisand, a smart customer, letting her get away with that.

Streisand still looks good. A bit too sleepy perhaps, but good. It's Lange, who now bears a striking resemblance to Caitlyn Jenner (as she's remarked upon), who really needs the soft focus lens.

But will she demand it? Will Barbra make her stop dying her hair and take off her Spanx?

Erna, the Lange hater is back.

Get her, Cookie!

lmao @ R189.

Jessica never mentions any female friends. She is the aging lonely doll.

R191 It's really important for you to hurt me, isn't it?

The Beth Jarrett troll is particularly active this afternoon!

Why is Ryan the only person who will hire Jessica? Is it her limited range? Her drinking? Her diva attitude? She seems to be on some kind of black list. I am the lead.

I'd love to hear some of Lange's drunken mumblings in the background of the inevitable 'Hasbeen (Love Theme from The Politician)'.

You're testing me, Erna (R194 / R195)…

When I get through with you'll, you'll have to clean more than just your cookies.

This'll be a hoot!

Substitute hammy for showy and you have it about right. And Jessica is no Bette Davis. Jessica’s films stink and she stopped being cast until ghoul chaser Ryan Murphy came along. This looks like typical campy TV trash.

They will slay.

It's probably shit, because Babs always has shitty taste in scripts. She says she's done with acting for a bit and then announces she's starring in another movie and it's always a turkey. I actually think she's a pretty good director, though, and had she been a bit younger, she'd have probably made something out of Gypsy. I heard the script she had for it was pretty great. Maybe Ryan will make that for her now.

R91 It was not very sisterly of Jane and Sally to refuse to share the names of their excellent plastic surgeons with Barbra, Goldie, and Jessica, who, sadly, had to look elsewhere.

R201 ...

F&F that MTM photo troll.

omg. I just found out about this! I'm squealing and jumping in my seat.

Ms. Murphy knows what the gays want and need.

Those who don't want this can click over to Dora.

Give it to me now

THE GH were in their 50s played by actresses who were 60. Not 70 or almost 80.

Hope we get more news soon.

Anymore news?

I need more info on this ASAP!

Nope. "I don't want to act any more."

(also....Debra Messing pleads for Barbra to play her aunt for one episode of WILL & GRACE)

Don´t watch my exclusive on O about this. Love Barbra

I wanted to ask you a little bit about your upcoming projects. I know that you were working on a show with Ryan Murphy potentially, yes?

No, no, no. We were in talks about it, but I had to do my album. He wanted me to play a part in a very good script called “The Politician,” and when I turned it down he hired Jessica Lange, who’ll be brilliant. And it’s with Gwyneth. But I wanted to make my album. I couldn’t devote the time to that.

Glad we got that clarification r212, I didn't realized that was what happened. I was confused when suddenly Lange was involved.

So, wait...is this still a musical? I know Ben and Gwyneth can sing quite well, but all I've heard of Lange singing has been on American Horror Story and she's definitely of the Marlene Dietrich school of singing i.e. not much range.

First look.

Can't stand this one...

Goop looks the best she's ever looked; how infuriating!